Steve Kerr told an amusing anecdote about how all NBA coaches steal plays from each other

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said
coaches around the NBA steal plays from each other.

Kerr described several instances when he was discussing
a play with another coach only to realize they had stolen the
play from someone else.

Kerr said it's commonly accepted and "really fun" to
do.

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has not drawn up any
of his own plays when the team is inbounding the ball.

Kerr was a guest
on "The Bill Simmons Podcast," and explained that instead of
designing plays from scratch, he steals his material for those
specific plays from other coaches. According to Kerr, stealing
plays is a common practice in the NBA.

"I steal everything," Kerr said of inbounds plays. "And most
coaches would tell you the same. What you end up doing is you
steal something, and then you end up tweaking it for your own
personnel."

Kerr told Simmons that he's taken plays from coaches like Gregg
Popovich with the San Antonio Spurs, Brad Stevens with the Boston
Celtics, to college teams who have run sets he's liked. Though
Kerr didn't specify the exact types of plays he was referring to,
presumably, he has drawn up his own original plays, too.

Kerr told an amusing anecdote about talking to Stevens about a
play the Warriors and Celtics both run when Stevens let on that
he got it from the Spurs.

"I ran a play late in a game one time, and I was talking to Brad
about it," Kerr said. "And we were talking about this game ... I
said, 'Yeah, so we ran that play late,' and he said, 'Oh, Kawhi?'
And I go, 'Yeah, we ran Kawhi,' because Pop runs it for [Spurs
forward] Kawhi [Leonard]. And that's how Brad remembers plays is
he calls them 'Pop' or 'Kawhi' or whatever."

Before Kerr became the head coach of the Warriors,
he created a video file of plays that he saw from other
coaches that he knew he wanted to install when he eventually
became a coach. Now, he said, he uses a program called Sportscode
to collect plays that all other coaches use.

Kerr also recalled taking a play from current Chicago Bulls head
coach Fred Hoiberg when he was the head coach of Iowa State
University. A year later, when Hoiberg became an NBA head coach
he asked Kerr about it and Kerr told him it was a great play and
he nicknamed it "cyclone." When he asked Hoiberg what he called
the play, Hoiberg said he called it "cougar" because he had
stolen it from the BYU Cougars.

"There's this understanding in the league that you just steal
stuff and adapt it and you modify it," Kerr said. "It's really
fun."